🏛️ This month, governments moved from advice to obligation. The US signed a pair of quantum executive orders, one to build the technology, one to defend against it, while new field data showed how far most systems still are from ready.

🛡️ In PQC, the deadlines are multiplying. A national agency, a financial regulator, a hyperscaler, and a standards body all set quantum clocks, and they are converging faster than many expected.

⚛️ In quantum communications, we look at a free platform for learning quantum security hands-on, a new experimental defense for QKD, and a European move to certify quantum-safe networks.

➡️ Our Awareness Topic goes deep on that QKD defense: how detection-efficiency-mismatch attacks work, and why a simple four-state countermeasure deserves to become standard.